APPENDIX A: Profile of Chemical Industry in Sasolburg, Free State
Sasolburg is recognized as a region housing major chemical industry in South Africa (Groundwork, 2003; South African Government Information, 2008). The town came into being through the construction of an oil-from-coal plant by the Sasol Corporation in 1952. The oil-from-coal process provided a stimulus to the chemical industry and attracted other chemical companies to the region due to the availability of feedstock. These companies included Karbochem and AECI (now Sasol Polymers). Currently Sasol is the leading chemical company in the region (Groundwork, 2003).
A brief profile of the chemical companies currently situated in Sasolburg follows:-
Sasol Chemical Industries (SCI): SCI comprises of a number of chemical companies including Sasol Nitro, Sasol Polymers, Sasol Solvents, and Sasol Wax. Sasol Nitro produces ammonia, nitric acid, explosives, fertilisers, sulphuric acid, phosphates and blasting accessories. Sasol Polymers produces ethylene, propylene, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, chlor-alkali chemicals and mining reagents. The solvents business produces alcohols, ketones, esters, acrylic acid esters, ethyl acetate, and acetic acid. The wax business specialises in the supply of waxes, petroleum jellies and liquid paraffins (Sasol, 2008).
Safripol: Previously owned by Dow Chemical Company, Safripol is now owned by local consortiums comprising ABSA Capital and Thebe Investment Corporation. Safripol manufactures polypropylene and high- density polyethylene (HDPE) for the plastics industry and is the only company that manufactures HDPE locally (Safripol, 2008).
Omnia Fertilizers: Omnia Fertilizers is a subsidiary of Omnia Holdings Limited, and manufactures a wide range of chemicals which constitute fertilizer. These products include nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, liquid and granular calcium nitrate, and potassium sulphate (Omnia, 2008).
Karbochem: Karbochem is a speciality chemical manufacturer for the rubber industry. The company’s product range includes solution styrene butadiene rubber, polybutadiene rubber, and polyisoprene which are used in tyre, industrial and sporting merchandise manufacture (Karbochem, 2008).
APPENDIX B: Map of Sasolburg’s Industrial Area
Figure A1: Map of Sasolburg’s Industrial Area
(Source: http://www.groundwork.org.za/AirQuality/AirMonitoringReport2003.pdf)
APPENDIX C: Questionnaire
The purpose of this research is to invesigate the impact and management of external project stakeholders on projects. This information is required for academic purposes only and can help improve the success of projects by understanding the criticality, and impact that external stakeholders can have on a project.
Please note that your responses will be kept strictly confidential and no respondent will be identified to any other person. If further use of this data is required, subsequent consent to this effect will be requested. If further clarification is required I can be contacted on 0836512187 or at anban.moodley@sasol.com
Please tick the adjacent box to indicate your consent to participate
Q.1 Which of the following best describes your role in a project?
Q.2 Years of experience
Q.3 Total number of projects worked on in last 5 years
Q.4 Average value of projects worked on, ZAR
Q.5 To what extent do you agree with the statement that "Engaging external stakeholders during the life cycle of a project is key to project success?"
Q.6 To what extent do you agree that your organisation has a formalised system for identifying external project stakeholders during a project?
Q.7 To what extent do you agree that your organisation has a formalised system for classifying external project stakeholders during a project? (e.g. by power, urgency etc.)
Q.8 To what extent do you agree that your organisation has a formalised system for managing (planning, organising, leading, controlling) external project stakeholders during a project?
Q.9 Please rate the importance of the following external stakeholders Financial institutions/
on their bearing towards a project Insurance companies
Scale: 1 - Not at all important
2 - Not so important Contractors/suppliers Competitors
3 - Average importance
4 - Fairly important Consultants/advisors Clients
5 - Very important
Controlling organisations Public authorities
Third parties Press/media
Line/base organisation Labour unions
Q.10 How frequently does your organisation actively encourage two-way flow of information or communication about risks and benefits between the project and its external stakeholders?
Q.11 To what extent do you agree that your organisation formally integrates stakeholder management during the project life cycle?
Q.12 Please rate the impact of the following external stakeholders Financial institutions/
according to which of them caused the most problems and Insurance companies uncertainty for the project
Scale: 1 - Never caused problems and uncertainty Contractors/suppliers Competitors
2 - Rarely caused problems and uncertainty
3 - Sometimes caused problems and uncertainty Consultants/advisors Clients
4 - Often caused problems and uncertainty
5 - Very often caused problems and uncertainty Controlling organisations Public authorities
Third parties Press/media
Line/base organisation Labour unions
Q.13 How effective has the stakeholder management strategy been during a project?
Q.14 Please rate the following benefits arising from managing Increases accountability and enhances responsible decision making stakeholder expectations and ensuring their active involvement
in a project? Enables effective risk identification and response planning
Scale: 1 - Strongly disagree
2 - Disagree Creates a learning opportunity for all stakeholders
3 - Neutral
4 - Agree Ensures project continuation and successful completion of the project
5 - Strongly agree
Q.15 To what extent does your organisation assess the strategy of external stakeholders relative to the project?
Q.16 To what extent does your organisation seek to motivate external stakeholders to accomplish project objectives?
Q.17 Please rate which of the following areas of stakeholder
management require the most development in order to Strategies and plans Tools and methods
improve stakeholder management on future projects Scale: 1 - Strongly disagree
2 - Disagree Procedures and routines Evaluations
3 - Neutral 4 - Agree
5 - Strongly agree Vision and objectives Theories
End users
End users
0-5 6-10 11-20 more than 20
Less than 10 million 11 to 50 million 51 to 100 million 101 to 500 million More than 500 million Unanswered Unanswered
0-3 4-7 8-12 more than 12 Unanswered
Definitions included with Questionnaire
Contractors: a person who undertakes a contract to provide materials and labour for a job (source: www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/)
Consultants: a person who provides expert advice professionally (source:
www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/)
Third party: a person or group besides the two primarily involved in a situation or dispute (source: www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/)
End user: the person who uses a particular product (source:
www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/)
Client: a person using the services of a professional person or organisation (source:
www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/)
Controlling organisation: organisation which ultimately manages and controls initiatives undertaken
Line organisation: business or industry structure with self-contained departments (source: www.businessdictionary.com/definition/)
Strategy: The planning and controlling of resources enabling efficient and effective use (source: www.businessdictionary.com/definition/)
Visions and objectives: Vision refers to an aspiration of what one wants to achieve while the objective is specific goals that must be achieved in lieu of the vision (source:
www.businessdictionary.com/definition/)
Procedures and routines: refers to a sequence of activities to perform a task (source:
www.businessdictionary.com/definition/)
Evaluations: refers to the analysis of activities to assess status (source:
www.businessdictionary.com/definition/)
APPENDIX D: Test for Internal Consistency
Item Analysis Report
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Database C:\Moodleab\MBA Assignments\ ... uestionnaire\Full results.S0 Reliability Section
--- Item Values --- --- If This Item is Omitted ---
Standard Total Total Coef Corr
Variable Mean Deviation Mean Std.Dev. Alpha Total
C1 2.515152 1.349102 157.2727 12.9549 0.8096 -0.0870
C2 2 0.8291562 157.7879 12.58908 0.7897 0.3563
C3 2.060606 0.8992842 157.7273 12.43552 0.7848 0.4989
C4 3.666667 1.534329 156.1212 12.53185 0.7985 0.1874
C5 4.333333 0.7359801 155.4545 12.59487 0.7890 0.4012
C6 3.515152 0.939455 156.2727 12.73596 0.7963 0.1472
C7 2.727273 0.8758113 157.0606 12.9541 0.8031 -0.0866
C8 3.060606 0.8638357 156.7273 13.03666 0.8058 -0.1816
C9 3.424242 1.031695 156.3636 13.11206 0.8102 -0.2358
C10 4.787879 0.4846117 155 12.90591 0.7982 -0.0150
C11 4.121212 0.6963106 155.6667 12.88086 0.7989 0.0116
C12 3.545455 0.904534 156.2424 12.54998 0.7891 0.3651
C13 3.424242 0.7512616 156.3636 12.73484 0.7943 0.2022 C14 3.757576 0.5607084 156.0303 12.73157 0.7926 0.2944 C15 4.545455 0.7537783 155.2424 12.63435 0.7906 0.3368
C16 3.424242 1.090593 156.3636 12.44693 0.7877 0.3865
C17 4.848485 0.4416738 154.9394 12.81342 0.7947 0.1971 C18 4.393939 0.8638357 155.3939 12.47232 0.7858 0.4782 C19 3.545455 0.8692996 156.2424 12.60712 0.7908 0.3155
C20 3.363636 0.9623598 156.4242 12.5425 0.7896 0.3467
C21 3.424242 0.8302975 156.3636 13.12397 0.8083 -0.2899 C22 3.363636 0.7833495 156.4242 12.59968 0.7897 0.3670 C23 1.969697 0.8833476 157.8182 12.54356 0.7887 0.3830 C24 4.060606 0.6585683 155.7273 12.57048 0.7874 0.4928
C25 2.939394 0.9662878 156.8485 12.2936 0.7801 0.6121
C26 2.909091 1.0113 156.8788 12.40403 0.7850 0.4674
C27 2.818182 1.28585 156.9697 12.48871 0.7923 0.2799
C28 2.636364 0.8950622 157.1515 12.57011 0.7898 0.3467
C29 2.969697 1.262063 156.8182 12.12037 0.7777 0.5921
C30 2.333333 1.163687 157.4545 12.3847 0.7864 0.4120
C31 3.757576 0.8302975 156.0303 12.75119 0.7956 0.1572
C32 2.787879 0.8199686 157 12.65405 0.7920 0.2801
C33 2.030303 0.8833476 157.7576 12.56988 0.7896 0.3525
C34 2.30303 1.015038 157.4848 12.53276 0.7899 0.3345
C35 3.242424 0.5018904 156.5455 12.80891 0.7949 0.1781
C36 4.212121 0.73983 155.5758 12.60712 0.7895 0.3818
C37 4.424242 0.5607084 155.3636 12.67334 0.7904 0.3998 C38 3.969697 0.6839613 155.8182 12.61312 0.7892 0.4087
C39 3.969697 0.9837698 155.8182 12.5311 0.7894 0.3494
C40 3 0.7071068 156.7879 12.75431 0.7945 0.1906
C41 3.090909 0.8048151 156.697 12.95059 0.8023 -0.0842 C42 4.242424 0.6139169 155.5455 12.69865 0.7918 0.3192 C43 3.606061 0.7881701 156.1818 12.71921 0.7941 0.2100
C44 3.787879 0.9272801 156 12.59464 0.7911 0.3050
C45 3.848485 0.8703883 155.9394 12.84022 0.7992 0.0439 C46 3.969697 0.6366342 155.8182 12.59081 0.7880 0.4788 C47 3.060606 0.7044232 156.7273 12.73841 0.7940 0.2143
Total 159.7879 12.90774 0.7965
Cronbach's Alpha 0.796485 Std. Cronbachs Alpha 0.806601